Then, how did the protests result in a surge of cases? The protests were not indoors...
More testing and more places reopening resulted in higher cases. Cases aren’t that big a deal. Hospitalizations (if they’re actually because of COVID-19) and deaths matter.
“Then how did the protests result in a surge of cases?”
They didn’t.
Like everything else about this scam dishonest reporting and vastly inflated numbers for political reasons.